Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

Blaine Hatcher Passes at Enid; Rites Are Set

POND CREEK, Jan. 28 - Blaine Hatcher, 72, a resident of the Pond Creek and Kremlin communities for more than 50 years died Sunday at an Enid hospital following a brief illness.
Services will be Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at Wilson chapel, Rev. J.C. Shirley of Phillips university will officiate. Burial will be in Pond Creek cemetery by Wilson funeral home.
Mr. Hatcher had recently resided a half mile north of Kremlin. He was born at Gault, Mo., Nov. 24, 1884 and came to the Pond Creek area in 1903.
He is survived by his wife, Betty of the home; a brother Ed Hatcher of Douney, Calif.; and three sisters, Mrs. Jim Peck of Kremlin, Mrs. Gladys Brooks of Atlanta, Ga., and Mrs. Bessie Murphy of Sacramento, Calif.